{"id":321649,"date":"2026-11-05T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321649\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:42:06","slug":"abingtons-marching-ghosts-take-state-title-boys-soccer-to-play-in-district-one-championship-on-nov-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321649\/","title":{"rendered":"Abington&#8217;s Marching Ghosts take state title, boys&#8217; soccer to play in District One championship on Nov. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Abington Senior High School Marching Ghosts were named the 2026 USBands Group VA Pennsylvania State Champions on Saturday, October 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ghosts posted a score of 90.5 and won Best Music, Best Visual, Best Overall Effect, and Best Color Guard, the district said in a post. They will compete in Allentown on Sunday, November 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can watch a clip of Saturday\u2019s performance below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In related news, the boys\u2019 soccer team defeated Lower Merion High School 2-1 in overtime on Tuesday, November 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ghosts are coming off wins over Spring-Ford High School and Neshaminy High School in the District One playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team will play in the district final on Saturday, November 7. The defending state champions are 18-1-4 on the season and <a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/abington-boys-soccer-takes-home-liberty-division-championship-will-play-1st-round-of-districts-on-oct-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">earned the Liberty Division Championship<\/a> last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all the latest news, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/glensidelocal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or sign up for Glenside Local\u2019s \u201cDaily Buzz\u201d newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photos: ASD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abington Senior High School Marching Ghosts were named the 2026 USBands Group VA Pennsylvania State Champions on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-321649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}